Panic after unidentified object feared to be an explosive is found in a Thika shop

Last week the Inspector General of Police posted an alert to members of the public to be on high alert during the ongoing period of Ramadhan

Thika town residents today proved that they were highly alert after a strangely wrapped object feared to be an explosive was spotted outside an animal product shop along the busy Uhuru street sending members of the public into a panic mode.

 The elderly lady owner of the animal shop had left her shop briefly to attend to the call of nature but on return found a strange parcel wrapped in khaki papers, she attempted to open it and found a gadget that according to her looked like an explosive.